My Dad had season tickets

Before my time and not in Vancouver,
but basically the same idea.

When I was very young and then a youth, my Dad had season tickets to the Vancouver Canucks, during part of the 1970's and 1980's. I viewed a few games where excessive violence and/or brawls broke out. 

My Dad also had season tickets to the Vancouver Blazers (WHA-World Hockey Association) during their brief existence. In one of the WHA games I remember a Blazer player tossing his broken stick into the crowd. 

I saw Bobby Hull play for the original Winnipeg Jets when I was very young.

As for the NHL-National Hockey League, notable violence took place in the penalty box when the Calgary Flames visited the Canucks one game. It seems to me that included a stick being thrown as well.

In fact, one brawl broke out in the seat beside us with a season ticket holder and a virtually challenged person in the standing section, just behind us. This man insisted on throwing popcorn at the season ticket holders, including innocent minor me. This took place when virtually everyone in the arena would stand up during play. After the virtually challenged  man had been punched in the head for throwing popcorn, by a person to my right, not my Dad, the virtually challenged man was hauled away by the flashy PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) security in red jackets.

He kept trying to swing his little arms to throw punches, as he was hauled away.

It seems to me a few years earlier, Mr. Blois had hot coffee spilled on his back as a fan stood during one of those games. 'My back'!

The Norwegian Benny Hill/Deputy Dawg tossed food when he sat with me in seats, the time he was invited. This troublemaker was never caught and thought the reaction of the victim/patron was very hilarious.

The program from the Bobby Hull game: eBay.

Repentance without regeneration is not salvation II: If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men

Repentance without regeneration is not salvation II: If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men

Street Ministry

I very briefly looked at the website of the Vancouver and Canada 'street preacher' in the news. The ministry is Christ's Forgiveness Ministries

In my humble opinion, it is wise to preach and teach the universal sinfulness of humanity (Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, as examples) as opposed to focusing on, or allowing one's ministry to publicly appear to be preaching and teaching against, one type of sin (s). Especially when this approach will lead to private and public confrontation. 

Preaching and teaching should be done in such a way that both true biblical love and biblical truth are served. Confrontation is to be avoided as much as it is up to the Christian.

Romans 12:18 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. 

A header from the Christ's Forgiveness Ministries website states on the image starting with: times of...

Repentance without regeneration is not salvation

Person's need to understand and be moulded by the gospel message before repenting in a biblical sense. At least generally, there are some exceptions, I suppose, listening in relative peace to the gospel message rationally is far more effective for witnessing, as opposed to listening to teaching and preaching within a confrontational environment. 

Biblical and New Testament regeneration via the Holy Spirit means there is an embracing of the applied atoning and resurrection work of Jesus Christ, through grace through faith. This regeneration leads to repentance in belief in the triune God. Regeneration related sections, please see Titus 3, John 3 as examples.

Thursday, July 11, 2019: Repentance without regeneration is not salvation 

PhD, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, 2010 

Edited

Biblically, as persons were (are) regenerated they would hear the call of salvation, repent and believe in Christ. Bavinck (1918)(2006: 53). I would view conversion as an aspect of regeneration, which is the beginning of the Christian experience. Regeneration was to encompass the entire divine plan of recreation from the initial change in persons to the ultimate culmination of a new heaven and new earth. Bavinck (1918)(2006: 53).

God causes this regeneration as primary cause and it is embraced by those in Christ as a secondary cause. The divine, primary cause alone actually saves a person. Secondary cause here means a human being embraces the work of the primary cause as opposed to by force or coercion. This compatibilistic approach therefore features soft and not hard determinism. This is in no way, human works righteousness and no saved human being, creates his/her own salvation. 

As secondary cause, there is belief, by grace through faith, alone. As secondary cause, for example, I seek God by writing these articles. I embrace my salvation, Christian worldview, theology and the bible; but all the salvific work was accomplished by God and Jesus Christ. I am not forced or coerced to embrace what I am morally accountable for. God certainly can force or coerce human thoughts, acts and actions, but I reason this would prohibit significant human moral accountability.  

Philippians 2: 12-13 New American Standard Version (NASB) 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 

Repentance is an aspect of biblical salvation as turning from sin, and accepting the atoning and resurrection work of Christ applied to a person. The salvific work is done by God, not by human acts of faith. Technically speaking we are regenerated through the Holy Spirit (John 3, Titus 3) and saved by the atoning and resurrection work of Christ being applied to us, by the will of God the Father. Repentance is via a regenerated human nature and will. 

On a practical theological basis we can realize that due to universal sinful natures and sinful choices, human beings will not 'catch' every sin to repent of, and as well sometimes because of spiritual blindness, persons will not always specifically repent of sinful choices via sinful nature. The atoning and resurrection work of Christ covers a regenerated person that therefore demonstrates general repentance within trusting, faith-based, belief. 

If compatibilism (my Reformed theological position, and my philosophical position) did actually equate with hard determinism, as some incompatibilists claim in error (and some hard determinists, perhaps claim in error), and not soft determinism, why would God as primary cause will for a human secondary cause in Jesus Christ to embrace, for example, repentance? A regenerated person in Christ, does not just wake up one morning accepting the atoning and resurrection, gospel work for self, justification and sanctification and having no understanding why that is the case. Repentance is a continual process in a believer's life, as in confessing sin in 1 John. 

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Reply to Miss Cia: Soft determinism, indeterminism, hard determinism,

fatalism

Repentance without regeneration is not salvation. 

BAVINCK, HERMAN (1918)(2006) Reformed Dogmatics Volume 2: God and Creation, John Bolt (gen.ed.), Translated by John Vriend, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids. 

BAVINCK, HERMAN (1918)(2006) Reformed Dogmatics Volume 3: Sin and Salvation in Christ, John Bolt (gen.ed.), Translated by John Vriend, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids. 

Zoom for Aug 29: British Columbia, Alberta, Florida, Norway

Zoom for Aug 29: British Colombia, Alberta, Florida, Norway

False teachers 

(Paraphrased) 'Someone's' Mother warned her to be careful with unique bachelors

(Yes be careful with those bible guys. Who knows how your children might turn out...)

France and soap

The genius of people from Florida

The Norwegian Benny Hill's legendary electronics career

The Norwegian Benny Hill is the least likely of us to have a Christian ministry 

(Although he trusts in the Lord)

The Norwegian Benny Hill discusses Mormon missionaries

The Norwegian Benny Hill's master class, dating tactics

The Norwegian Benny Hill's dating prospects if he ever moved back to British Columbia

Quote from another "Yeah that was fun last night. A truly diverse group of hooligans.'

Brief Saturday Bullets during Vegas-Vancouver playoff game and for Zoom this evening

Alberta: Pixabay

Brief Saturday Bullets during Vegas-Vancouver playoff game and for Zoom this evening

• I am pleased with the finalized version of my Mom's memorial page. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Mom's friends and relatives are too far away and having to quarantine if they visit British Columbia; this memorial page will serve as an online legacy. 

Please free to comment. Merlena Murray Memorial Page

• In regards to racism, I have noted that within my Reformed, Christian worldview from the English Standard Version (ESV):

• Galatians 3: 28: English Standard Version 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 

Thank you, Miss CIA: Facebook

• 1 Corinthians 12: 12-13 English Standard Version 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[d] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. d 1 Corinthians 12:13 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface (Of the ESV)

• I do not live in America, I live in British Columbia, Canada. I am not part of American culture, to be clear. But, my take is that most biblical Christians on this planet will understand and embrace that humanity all originate from Adam and Eve (Genesis 1-3) and Noah and family (Genesis 6-9). There is an equality in the gospel and in the New Testament for humanity. Racism in contrary to gospel theology.

• However, many biblical Christians and conservative and libertarian types, intellectually are not interested in being told, lectured or influenced through liberal, social, political correctness, in how to respond to the great evil of racism. Like myself, his/her intellectual influences are not primarily celebrities, athletes and politicians. Like myself, these influences could and/or would be biblical and academic. To be clear, law and order should be followed and this means respect for all within humanity by all within humanity.

• I came across this website and link while researching Noah and the flood.

National Center for Science Education

(USA)

 Cited 

Reports of the National Center for Science Education | Volume 29 | No. 5 | September-October 2009 Yes, Noah's Flood May Have Happened, But Not Over the Whole Earth 

Cited 

Conclusions

If the 3.4-meter–thick layer of flood deposits in southeastern Mesopotamia (MacDonald 1988) represents a huge flood of ancient times, and if it is the remnants of the one described in the early Babylonian epics, then the authors of these epics were likely survivors who lived in a village on natural levees on the lower parts of either the Euphrates or Tigris Rivers where the flood waters covered their village, natural levees, and adjacent flood plains for distances of 160 to 320 kilometers so that no land could be seen, and their "whole world" would have been under water.

• I am not a scientist or flood expert, but I thought this approach above was far more academically open-minded than a couple of other online sources I came across today researching.

Thursday, December 13, 2018: Very brief on the Genesis flood 

• I was aware in bible school that other creation and flood accounts were (are) extant. Creation, and the human response to it over time, and the flood occurrences would not only be Hebrew Bible events, but would be world events. As the Hebrew Bible is proclaimed as divinely revelatory, these other accounts, whether older or newer than the Hebrew Bible manuscripts, would tell these stories from a different worldview perspective. Rather than making the Hebrew Bible a 'rip-off' of older versions of world events, and therefore just different mythology, the Hebrew Bible versions serve as legitimate religious history with God that revealed self in several texts. Within the New Testament, the centrepiece of historical, documented, revelation is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Gary Habermas has excellent resources on the historical resurrection.

Gary Habermas.com

World of Domes: Intercontinental Zoom

• Zoom meetings tonight @ 21: 30 Vancouver time. World of Domes, Incontinent Zoom, but done hair is not banned. 

Russ Murray is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 

Topic: Russ Murray's Personal Meeting Room 

Join Zoom Meeting

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Arne in Norway, is the only person that has ever been required to use the password. I do not choose it as an option. Zoom includes it in the invitation.

HAMILTON, VICTOR P. (1988) Handbook on the Pentateuch, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House. 

MOUNCE, ROBERT H. (1990) The Book of Revelation, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 

LA SOR, WILLIAM SANFORD, DAVID ALLAN HUBBARD, AND FREDERIC WILLIAM BUSH. (1987) Old Testament Survey, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.